People v. Tosca

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander Hunter, J.), rendered October 6, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 17 years to life, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 12 years to life, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly admitted police testimony that shortly before defendant’s arrest a livery cab driver had reported an encounter with defendant…